asterisk users - May 2003 - gnophone conf question

I hope this isn't something newbiesque and Steve will denigrate me. . .

I just built gnophone, and I'm having trouble figuring out just how to 
sync the "Telephony Preferences" in gnophone and iax.conf on my
asterisk
server.

I am heading on a trip and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be behind a NAT 
gateway, and my asterisk server is *separately* behind a NAT gateway.

I got gnophone to work, but only when I hardcoded the "host" parameter
in iax.conf.  That won't work on the trip, which of course following 
Murphy's Law begins tomorrow.

Any enlightment that might be shared would be humbly appreciated.

Thx.

B.

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 22:29, Brian Capouch wrote:
> I hope this isn't something newbiesque and Steve will denigrate me. . .
> 
> I just built gnophone, and I'm having trouble figuring out just how to 
> sync the "Telephony Preferences" in gnophone and iax.conf on my
asterisk
> server.
> 
> I am heading on a trip and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be behind a
NAT
> gateway, and my asterisk server is *separately* behind a NAT gateway.
> 
> I got gnophone to work, but only when I hardcoded the "host"
parameter
> in iax.conf.  That won't work on the trip, which of course following 
> Murphy's Law begins tomorrow.
> 
> Any enlightment that might be shared would be humbly appreciated.
newbie questions aren't the problem. It is questions that are either
documented or covered and easily found in the archives.

As for your question, does your gnophone register, or are you getting
calls through via "brute force" by pointing asterisk at it's IP?
[myuser]
type=friend
host=dynamic
username=myuser
secret=blah
context=internal
auth=md5,plaintext

This is the config from my pbx with user and password changed. I have no
problem connecting through my nat at home to my system at work.
hopefully you just modify to meet your user and password settings.

As for passing through 2 nats, have you already port forwarded iax
through your nat to you asterisk machine?

Steven

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 22:29, Brian Capouch wrote:
> I am heading on a trip and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be behind a
> NAT gateway, and my asterisk server is *separately* behind a NAT
> gateway.
You're going to either need to open something up, such that ONE end
isn't NAT (and the other end registers), or else you're going to have to
use a third-party service (like NuFone) to relay your calls; I would
normally have recommended iaxtel, but they're down this week.  In this
second case, you'll need to have both ends register with the service, so
there's a UDP route already established in both directions.

-Tilghman